YIMBY News for 6/23

[Eric Budd]

Why Climate Advocates Should Be Urbanists, Part 2

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 50.38. affordable, affordable housing, average house, density, growth, house, housing, parking, parking lot, project, rent, single-family, supply, transportation, urban, walk, zone, zoning

Responding to the most common arguments against using land use policy to fight climate change In part 1 of this series, I talked about the many ways that smarter land use patterns can reduce greenhouse gas emissions. So why isn’t land use a more prominent part of climate advocacy in the US today? To answer that question, I will unpack some of the arguments against a land use strategy, and identify where those arguments take a wrong turn. Argument #1: Electrification Makes Land Use Changes Irrelevant In recent years solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles, and electric heat pumps are rap

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16th Street Mall reaches tipping point as business frustration grows with delayed renovations

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 40.48. affordable, apartment, construction, development, downtown, growth, housing, income, parking, project, real estate, regional transportation district, rent, transportation, urban, walk

[image: City street under construction with heavy machinery and barriers. People walking on the sidewalk to the left, buildings and a distant dome visible in the background.] Story first appeared in: Shyam and Shanti Shrestha have seen Denver’s 16th Street Mall change dramatically in the years since they opened Mt. Everest Imports of Himalaya in 1995. They were around when the Denver Pavilions was built in 1998, when the mall was extended to meet Union Station in 2002, and when the 2014 Union Station redevelopment sparked a downtown building boom. But today, the Shresthas say they wonder if th

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The best plan to help refugees might also be the simplest

Vox - Policy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.13. development, house, housing, income, mobility, rent, urban, walk

A man buys food from Jeanne Nakazungu, a refugee and mother of four who fled Congo in 2016, in Nairobi’s Kasarani neighborhood. Nakazungu used her cash transfer to buy stock and rent a small shop behind her stand. NAIROBI, Kenya – In 2008, when Mohamed Ali Mohamed was a kid growing up in Mogadishu, Somalia, his cousin was shot by the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab. “That made us run away,” he said. He and his grandmother walked to the border with Kenya and settled in Nairobi. As a teenager, Mohamed would wake up at 5 am to deliver bread to nearby shops before school, but it barely earned hi

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